10. Overcome, Conquer, Win — People hate to lose. Show them how to avoid it!

On a search engine results page you’re met with a title and a description — that’s all.

Those are the only two components that a reader sees before deciding whether or not to click and visit your site.

The title is taken from your page title element. If you’re writing a blog post, that typically coincides with your blog post title. Your description can be taken from the page content, but if you have a meta description tag, the search engines will often take that content instead.

19 Top Titles From Oprah Magazine-

When you aren’t sure of the type of tittles that work with your demographic, buy magazines in your niche and look at what you see on the cover. National Enquirer is another place to find inspiration for great titles. Here are 19 from Oprah magazine covers-

17. YOU DREAM OF (writing a book, traveling Europe, launching a product etc) AND WHY YOU DON’T GO FOR IT

18. ATTENTION DREAMERS: 5 STEPS THAT WILL JUMP-START YOUR SUCCESS

19. IS YOUR DREAM OF (making money online, becoming a top photographer, publishing a book, traveling the world) HARDER THAN YOU THINK?

2 Goals to Writing an Effective Title –

1. Catch a reader’s eye and encourage them to read.

2. Help search engines and help those searching find your article.

It’s that simple, and that difficult.

Your post title or headline must attract readers. It must motivate the reader to click. It must encourage them to move their eyes past the title to the text. Then it’s up to your storytelling and writing abilities to lead the reader through the rest of your story.

Article titles today do more than just encourage readers to read. Search engines use them in their search results to help the searcher find information on the web. From among a long list of links, your post title must jump out and scream,

“HERE! This is the information you are seeking! Click here! Read this!”

Your post title becomes a critical component to helping people find you in a search engine, directory, link list, and more.

Thus, writing effective, eye-catching titles and headlines becomes even more important than writing a powerful article. Without the power in the title, the power in the content is often overlooked. A good title helps your blog get found.

35 Power Headline Words:

Do you

Amazing

At last

Bargains

Little-known secrets

Life

Breakthrough

Only

The truth about

Now

Sale

How would

Advice to

Love

Facts

Discover

Inside-secrets of

Announcing

Yes

Amazing Secrets

Which

Here

New

How much

This

Which of

How to

You

Free

Hot

Top 8 (or any number)

Best 8 (or any number)

8 top (or any number)

8 best (or any number)

8 tips (or any number)

Maximum Length of Post Titles:

Different search engines have different limits and these limits keep changing. The current guidelines, as of April 2012, are:

• W3C recommends a maximum of 64 characters for page titles.

• Bing recommends a title between 5 and 65 characters long.

• Google don’t have any guidance for content publishers, but recommend a maximum title length of approximately 60 characters for Google’s own pages.

Characters that Never Belong in a Title:

!

@

$

#

&

^

*

( )

+

=

“

‘

< >

,

.

{ }

;

/

|

\

~

•

Characters you can use in titles:

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I hope this helps you with your top blog and sharing your voice on the Internet dreams.

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